Little Englanders

A TIMES SUMMER READ FOR 2025''For sheer entertainment, this rollicking account of Britain before the Great War is hard to beat, brimming as it is with swindlers, murderers and charlatans, imperialist fantasies and saucy innuendos'' ''History Books of the Year'', The Times''The very best sort of panoramic portrait'' David KynastonWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901 it was the end of an era. Many later...